Explore big data and how it works. Learn about big data's relationship to AI, data science, social media, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- How big data shapes AI
- The volume, velocity, and variety of big data
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Social media and the Internet of Things
- Data warehouses, data lakes, and the cloud
- Edge computing and fog computing
- Big data for business strategy
- Big data for customer interactions
- Big data for applications
- Ten ways big data is different from small data
- The three facets of data science
- Data science without big data
- Big data without data science
- Big data and privacy
- Data governance
- Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Batch processing vs. stream processing
- Distributed storage and processing
- An evolving data landscape
- Challenges with data preparation
- Visualizing big data
- Data mining
- Text analytics
- Sentiment analysis
- Predictive analytics
- Anomaly detection
- Next steps
Taught by
Barton Poulson